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Money Laundering
Important Area; Where We Are Going…
Why Have Money Laundering Laws?
Why Do Prosecutors Like Money Laundering Statutes?
Overview of Statutes, Methods, & Purposes
Purposes
Purpose # 1: To Address Concealment
# 2: Block Use of Tainted/ untainted) Funds to Promote Other
Crimes.
Purpose # 3: Money- Spending Prohibition
Coverage of Statutes
Close Reading of 3 Statutes
18 U.S.C. § 1956(A)(1) - Transaction(Promotion or Concealment)
18 U.S.C. 1956(A)(2) - Transport(Promote or Conceal)
Cuellar v. U.S. (2008 – USSC)
18 U.S.C. 1956(A)(3) – To Qualify UC Ops
18 U.S.C. § 1957 – Anti- Spending
§ 1957 REFINEMENTS & ELEMENTS
What Proof § 1957 does Not Require
Why Make 1957 So Broad?
18 U.S.C. 1960
HAWALA BROKERS
Cases
U.S. v. Campbell (4th Cir. 1992)
Campbell: Illustrative Concealment Case
Campbell
Campbell
Most Common Methods of Concealment (And Of Showing It)
Cuellar (2008) and Campbell (1992)
Campbell § 1001 Charge
PIERVINANZI (1994)(746)
Facts
Piervinanzi’s Argument Against the 1956(a)(2)(A) Count?
Court responses